MandieD

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by MandieD 2y ago
25-29.9 is the usual range for “overweight, but not obese” in the US and Germany (so probably the rest of Europe, too); I remember my hotel room scale in Korea showing 23 as the start of overweight, so I guess the ranges in that study are m
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by MandieD 3y ago
There are still a lot of Germans around who remember not having enough to eat as children in the late 40s. Yes, their parents had done, or at least allowed, terrible things, but they were children. Meat was especially in short supply, and m
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by MandieD 3y ago
Most of the rest of the Technician exam is what is the absolute minimum you need to know about Part 97 to avoid disrupting your neighbors' radio reception and/or keep the FCC from knocking on your door.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Wrong frequency range - these handhelds are designed for 2m and 70cm, and CB is 11m. You'd have to do a lot of tricky hardware modification first, and then hook it up to a rather large antenna for a handheld.
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by MandieD 3y ago
It was apparently intentionally-tainted cinnamon in apple sauce pouches, but confirms your point about the complexity of food supply chains making it more likely for bad stuff to get in: https://www.fda.gov/food/outbrea
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by MandieD 3y ago
Yeah, we tried (and failed) to dig out the buried cab seatbelts in Lima and Cusco.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Security at Frankfurt this past December felt like a lighter touch and better organized than TSA in Orlando or Houston, but still attentive and likely to catch something that shouldn’t be taken onto the plane.
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by MandieD 3y ago
People pay to get detailed photographs of their irises as "artwork", even in relatively privacy-conscious Germany.
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by MandieD 3y ago
There’s all the down-ballot elections, and states like Texas have completely open primaries. And states like Texas often have nearly one-party rule, so the primary pretty much is the election. Because of the party that currently owns the
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by MandieD 3y ago
Additional fun factor: today is Super Tuesday - primary elections in a lot of US states. This outage will result in absolutely no ridiculous conspiracy theories.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Special bonus: today is Super Tuesday, which is when a large number of US states have their primary elections.
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by MandieD 3y ago
The timing has been bad before. Those of us in our mid-40s who were privileged to go to college “on schedule” graduated into the Dotcom bust, and had our new jobs snatched away or searched for months for boring government contracting jobs s
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by MandieD 3y ago
Mine’s been too worried about losing the primary to someone who is crazy rather than merely craven like him to care what I think.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Do not get me started on the gender coding of children’s clothes and accessories. Judging by pictures of me and my little brother in the 80s, and comparing that to the clothes for sale now, manufacturers spent the past 40 years learning how
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by MandieD 3y ago
I just love it when courts and legislatures in my home country declare that they would have been ok with seeing me dead because the fetus I dearly wanted implanted itself somewhere that would have killed me had I not gotten prompt, objectiv
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by MandieD 3y ago
That’s generally how it works in Germany. We have had more strikes than usual the last few years, but they’re usually really short. In my particular industry, having a very strong but pragmatic union that the companies know can make their
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by MandieD 3y ago
I spent my first few months as a regular resident of Germany (after years as a US Army IT contractor) completely failing to get past initial interviews, and fell into what my husband and I now believe was some sort of depression. I can&#x27
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by MandieD 3y ago
When I was getting ready to move to Germany in 2004, car insurance was one of my main to-do’s, as I was shipping my car over (only sensible if you’re involved with the US government) and my bank would only release the title for export when
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by MandieD 3y ago
Example: Germany’s mostly-public (Gesetzliche - more like, extremely strictly regulated) health insurance system putting a market-based cap on what private (more like, more lightly-regulated) insurance can cost and cover. I was on the priva
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by MandieD 3y ago
Yes, I absolutely did that, back when personal websites usually had URLs like http://www.subdomain.domainname.net/~username
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by MandieD 3y ago
“Pastor for an online ministry” - the cool new way to say “televangelist,” and apparently just as trustworthy.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Anecdata: allegedly, confessing an extramarital affair (past or ongoing) during your Department of Defense Secret (relatively common level clearance) examination or renewal will result in an offer to speak with your spouse in a few days to
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by MandieD 3y ago
My generally bright 3-year-old son has a physical defect that will make life harder for him, and that is reparable by now-common-enough surgery, the sooner the better, but requires general anesthesia. "Is this worth the risks of genera
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by MandieD 3y ago
Good, I'm not the only one reading those comments and thinking, "oh, you sweet summer children who didn't graduate into the Dotcom Bust or Great Recession..."
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by MandieD 3y ago
Paneer would be an excellent one to add because it's easy to make and doesn't even require rennet, just some sort of acid (citric acid carefully added has given me the best results)
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by MandieD 3y ago
Block its MAC address on your WiFi router - as long as it doesn’t keep changing its MAC address.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Me, too - I didn't immediately associate their logo with an emoji, but thought it was a cute-ified version of the Facehugger.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Yes, because the first thing I think of is the Facehugger from Alien.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Which were connected to the very expensive machine that a whole household shared. In mid-late 90s central Texas, a well-off family might have had one PC and a second phone line shared between Internet access and the kids, as well as a dot m
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by MandieD 3y ago
Charitable reading: in the "some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen" senses, with a heavier emphasis on the latter, though the former is more readily punished.

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